Aerospace Engineer-Aircraft Performance (Direct Hire)
Job Location:
Lakewood, CO - USA
Yearly Salary:
Posted:
Application Deadline:
Vacancies:
Job Summary
Serves as an Aerospace Engineer specializing in aircraft performance and handling qualities within Aircraft Certification. The Aerospace Engineer will plan and accomplish highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimaldirection of a manager project/program manager team leader or more experienced engineer.
The incumbent will apply experience and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles theories and concepts applicable to aircraft performance and handling qualities to solve complex problems and improve airworthiness standards and guidance as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies to solve complex problems and to develop improved technical processes for the organization. Considers the objectives of the major subdivision and LOB/SO when developing integrating and implementing solutionsto diverse complex problems. Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.
The Aerospace Engineer will develop airworthiness standards and related advisory and guidance material on aircraft performance and handling qualities for the type certification of aircraft. Ensure standardized application of the FAA airworthiness requirements worldwide. Provide policy guidance and instruction to others internally and externally resolving most technical issues without the intervention of management.
The incumbent develops strategies implementation plans and responses to safety recommendations from the National Transportation Safety Board as well as from individuals or organizations within the FAA and considers the objectives of the Aircraft Certification Service and the FAA when developing integrating and implementing solutions to technical issues. Communicates to all levels within the Aircraft Certification Service and to counterparts in other lines of business such as the Flight Standards Service the Office of Environment & Energy and the public.
Contacts are internal and external. Represents the FAA as a technical specialist on projects programs and other work activities. Proposes defines and oversees research associated with new or novel designs or technologies.
Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches. Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires.
Provides guidance to lower-level staff to solve difficult technical issues. Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management or a more experienced engineer.
Work is rarely reviewed typically through status reports and at project completion to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity. The work activities impact directly on the objectives of one or more major subdivisions and/or LOB/SOs and may impact on the objectives of the FAA. The work may affect the safety and security of customers.
- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
To view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for General Engineer Series 801 please refer to:
General Engineering Series 0801
Basic Requirements: Degree in Engineering. To be acceptable the program must: (1) lead to a bachelors degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics such as optics heat transfer soil mechanics or electronics.
To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I FG/GS 13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.
Specialized Experience is: Experience applying engineering concepts principles and practices to address aircraft performance and handling qualities issues.
Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
Interview: If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list.
Selection may be made from this announcement or from ACT-AVS-26-AIR-99613.
This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).
Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.
Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.
We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
Position may be subject to a background investigation.
A one-year probationary period may be required.
The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. will be accepted from any U.S. citizen. On-the-Spot will be used to fill this position. The Rule of Three Veterans Preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants does not apply to this vacancy.
You may also be considered for this vacancy based on eligibility under the 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program Veterans Recruitment Appointment and Persons with Disabilities/Persons with Targeted Disabilities. To be considered for one of these special hiring authorities you must identify your eligibility in your questionnaire in the Applicant-Preferred Conditions of Employment addition you must submit documentation that provides evidence of eligibility as indicated in the Required Documents section of the announcement.
As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process) the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore as an applicant for this announcement you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.
In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA in your work history please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s) if applicable may be further evaluated on the KSAs listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation applicants will be placed in alphabetical order and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job.
Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA.
This announcement will be used to make selections throughout the AIR organization.
Links to Important Information: Locality Pay COLA
Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government passionate about the ideals of our American republic and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
Required Experience:
IC
